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Brilliant performance from Newcastle tonight. Pressing and disrupting Wigan and not allowing them to play out from the back paid dividends. We looked much better in possession and in defence and much more dangerous going forward. I’ve criticised Alan Pardew’s tactics recently but he got it spot on tonight. Dropping deeper in the second half did give Wigan more of the ball but crucially it made it harder for them to play balls in behind Coloccini and Williamson for Kone and Di Santo. The only real negative is the inuries to Ba and Santon but hopefully they won’t be too too bad.

well done to the lads for getting the 3 points, but thats where the compliments end. can we still go down?? very much so- that 2nd half was a relegation performance . sell cisse- not only could he not find the goal with a sat-nav, he needs to understand what the off-side rule means, wor lass could explain that to him- then put bigi in his place. give willo to gateshead, with our compliments- and give ba, cisse’s wages to keep him here. nearly forgot- then buy some quality ! there wasnt alot about tonight.however 3 points is 3 points, even if it was against wigan down to 10 men after 12 mins.

Nice feeling to get a win again,we needed that. Hopefully we put out a young team in Europe and don’t get bashed and again have a starting 11 for Fulham. Another injury or 2 and were as thin as Victoria Beckham

Great result, comfortable performance, was even impressed by the 2 players that get slated the most here. Anita was excellent, Marv looked tricky, Bigi showed a performance that belied his tender age, and Fergie again showed why he should be LW in front of Jonas (I know he played LB but he’s a LW imo)

stuart no9 a repost for effect I see. Escape your notice that it as 10 men as a direct result of our pressure. They got what they deserved. 2nd half was a relegation performance? Why? because we didnt go on to score 5 goals? Repost for effect.

Based on a performance you saw last week and this evening you have come to the conclusion that he is miles better than Simmo? I’ll give you that he played well against us this evening, and perhaps even played well last week but surely you must do a little more research before reaching such a categorical conclusion.

best players were anita/marv/santon/ba/bigi poorer players were cisse/krull for me that pairing of marv anita worked wonders starting to think of a formation of ————–krull/robinson———– ferg—-collo——-willo—–santon —————tiote———————- arfa——marv——-anita——– ———ba———-cisse————–

but cisse needs his head testing atm too many far too easy shots to hit the target gone astray and he seems to live offside atm no wonder ba is getting annoyed at him.

and erm unfortunatly i can see ba leaving after all the negative comments he’s had in the past combined with the money he wants (and to be fair if carrol and other strikers are worth 100k+ ba is definatly worth 80k i just hope we sign a striker half as decent as him in jan.

Belfast – well said I just knew this lad would get up to speed especially after the stoke game. I hope he continues. Same with Marv – it would be so hilarious to see marv and hatem chew up dm’s but hey I am dreaming.

That doesn’t mean they escape mention. Simmo went up and down the wing well and Willo defended everything that came his way, let’s not find reasons to dismiss their performance. You could negate Anita’s performance by saying the Wigan midfield gave him too much space but that would be doing him a disservice so why do it to Simmo and Willo?

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